11/13/2022 0 Comments Son of saul streaming online![]() But, if you bring that back to the human level and show a little then it can give the spectators much more perception of the horror in a truer sense. And we did not want the viewer to be on top of the horror because it’s not understandable and perceivable as a whole in the reality of Holocaust there is no god’s point of view. I think this power of imagination is morally very important because we cannot recreate the horror we can only suggest it. The spectator knows that he is looking at a factory of death and sees some fragments of it, which demands that he imagine things. Because of this strategy, the background and its imagination become very important for viewers. And when we are paying attention to him we are not paying attention to the background, to the surroundings, to what’s going on, to the deportees, to the deported, to the dead, because he somehow got used to them. As I explained, we were focused on one man and one man only. To approach this question, we worked to stimulate the viewer’s imagination. The moral question then was how to balance these two facts. NEMES: If you want to show too much then you might end up with less but at the same time, if you show too little then you might downgrade the impact of the horror of the Holocaust. Furthermore, because of the Holocaust, a new language was created as the Yiddish language changed drastically, which we tried to show in the film. We realized that in this hell, the language might be the only home that people could have. So, in this movie, in the little sentences that people spoke we wanted to show this difference of language and bring back that memory of speech. There were different types of Yiddish according to the geographical regions, such as how if you were from Ukraine then your Yiddish accent would be different compared to if you were Hungarian. ![]() We had a wonderful Yiddish coach, Mendy Cahan, who actually helped us in this process. We wanted to show the importance of Yiddish for this community, which has not been addressed enough in previous movies on this topic. This is the language that was spoken for hundreds of years and lost its position after the Holocaust. Yes, in fact we paid special tribute to Yiddish and it’s really very important for us. NEMES: There are eight languages in the film and we worked with actors from different countries. ![]() Having said this, it is not only a subjective stance since we see him as a character representing something universal. Furthermore, I did not focus on a group but rather on the experience of one human being. My film is not about survival it is about the reality of death. Given this, my movie is very different from a survival story such as Schindler’s List, which is a very good film, very talented, dramatic, and almost epic. I wanted to make something very historic into something very alive and I wanted to boil everything down to the dimension of a single human being. ![]() I looked at the world from the perspective of Saul Auslander, a Hungarian Jew, a member of the Sonderkommando, and I limited my film to his perspective. I only looked for a unique perspective in order to tell the story in the simplest and most minimalist way possible. For this movie which tells its story in just a day and a half, I did not look for a hero and I was not interested in the survivor’s point of view I was not even interested in representing too much of the death factory. ![]()
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